New Projects

Today was the day! I got my first 2 skeins of Kauni. It's colourway is EI: purple - lilac - beige

Beautiful, isn't it?

Heute war ein wirklich cooler Tag! Ich hab meine ersten 2 Knäule Kauni bekommen. Farbverlauf: lila - flieder - beige
Wunderschön nicht?



I thought of making a shawl for my mother out of this beautiful yarn. The pattern I wanted to knit is the Icelandic Lace Shawl by Sigrídur Halldórsdóttir. I think it will be a lil bigger than the pattern says, but my mother is a lil bigger than me.

Ich werde davon ein Tuch für meine Mutter stricken. Mir kam gleich das Icelandic Lace Shawl von Sigrídur Halldórsdóttir in den Sinn. Vermutlich wird das Tuch etwas größer als in der Anleitung angegeben, aber meine Mutter ist auch ein wenig breiter als ich.

Anja and I were on pearls mission today. She is very fond of the idea to knit herself the Pretty as a Peacock Shawl with matching pearls in it. I myself thought of making it plain white maybe with a silk blended yarn - without pearls. Before I came to Aachen, best I could do was dream of these wonderful shawls and yarns as in hick towns - no matter which - u wont get any of these easily, unfortunately.

Außerdem waren Anja und ich heut auf Perlenmission. Sie hat sich überlegt, den Pretty as a Peacock Shawl zu stricken und will es natürlich mit passenden Perlen bestricken. Ich hingegen habe mir überlegt, ebendieses Tuch aus einem glänzenden weißen Garn zu stricken, vielleicht ein Garn mit Seidenanteil - ganz ohne Perlen. Bevor ich nach Aachen kam, konnte ich von all solchen tollen Tüchern und Garnen nur träumen, in der Provinz - egal welche - kriegt man sowas nur unter großem Aufwand, leider.

Ohh, and yes, I finished another project today. An easy to knit lace scarf for my sister. The pattern is MissCrazy by Birgit Freyer. I used a multicolour yarn with mint as the basic colour - a lil more than 50 g - and bought today 5 skeins of yarn each only 10 m long in yellow, orange, red, blue & purple to weave them into the peekaboo stripes of the scarf.

Ach ja, ich hab ein weiteres Projekt beendet. Ein sehr leicht zu strickender Schal für meine Schwester. Das Muster heißt MissCrazy von Birgit Freyer. Dafür habe ich ein Multicolourgarn mit der Basisfarbe Mint verstrickt - knapp über 50 g - und hab für die Lochmusterstreifen 5 Miniknäule mit einer Lauflänge von 10 m in sonnengelb, orange, rot, blau und lila zum durchziehen gekauft.

Tommorrow I'll start crocheting the Teddy bear for my friend MiLa. Yarn I already bought yesterday, but today I came across a package of 6 cute bells. I bought it immediately and one of the bells I'll sew on the Teddy bear's tie.

Morgen werde ich mit dem Häkelteddy für MiLa anfangen. Das Garn habe ich bereits gestern gekauft, aber heute hab ich beim Shoppen noch eine Packung mit 6 Glöckchen entdeckt, die ich natürlich eingekauft habe. Eines der Glöckchen werde ich and die Schleife des Teddy's nähen.

KnitPicks

Today I bought a set of KnitPicks. I thought complaining about plastic needles is not nessessary, but when I tried knitting some rows of the Revontuli I found the stitches slipping so darn fast from it that I wanted to buy the KnitPicks asap. Lucky me I got some extra money this month.
I already slipped the stitches of Revontuli to a KnitPicks and changed from metal needles to KnitPicks for the shawl I'm actually working on. Knitting the first few rows with them felt soooo good - now I know what I missed! I decided never to knit with other needles then them or my beloved bamboo needles.

Heute hab ich mir das KnitPicks-Set gekauft. Irgendwie fand ich's immer idiotisch mich über die ollen Plaste-/Metallnadeln zu beschweren, aber als ich meinen Revontuli angefangen hab, war's echt genug, weil die Maschen ständig abzurutschen drohten. Da hab ich beschlossen mir das Set schnellstmöglich zu kaufen. Glücklicherweise hab ich diesen Monat ein bischen Extra-Geld bekommen.
Natürlich hab ich die Maschen vom Revontuli sofort auf die KnitPicks umgehängt und auch das Tuch, an dem ich grad stricke, auf KnitPicks draufgestrickt. Ich hatte ja keine Ahnung, was mir da entgangen ist, bis ich die ersten Reihen gestrickt hatte. Na, und da hab ich halt beschlossen, daß ich nie wieder andere Nadeln als diese oder meine geliebten Bambusnadeln verwenden werde.

20 yellow (miniature) crowns

This wasn't a big project at all, but making a whole bunch of these feels a lil annoying - after the 5th piece, so it took me 2 weeks to finish them. But here are the 20 crowns my sister wants to make brooches from for her shop:

She also dared to order many, many, many crocheted flowers for her self sewed garments to give her stuff a very individual look. She literally said, my crocheted flowers would give her label a face. Sounds good, huh?

Next projects to work on (hard & fast) are the shawl for my sister and the crocheted teddy bear a friend has ordered from me.

Umm, one confession I have to make - I started my first revontuli already :D but I did behave and didn't knit more than the first 25 (pretty short rows). I was almost never as impatient as this time.

New Socks for the Kid

Today I finished Thien's first pair of socks and I really don't get why I never knitted him some much earlier!

Aren't these lovely? Thien himself loves them, wears them right now but wanted to conserve them - he actually didn't want to wear them outside.

Now I'm working on the miniature crowns for the brooches for my sister's shop. Am almost done with them. So I'm probably going on with the b'day shawl for my sister - today is her b'day, but since she stayed almost a week with me recently I couldn't go on knitting it :( and now I have to hurry to finish and post it.

Finished my Mysterious Lady

I know, my picture is not the best - I actually don't have a real camera and just tried it with my mobile phone using its self-timer.
I finished the Lady already 2 weeks ago, showed it off, before blocking it, to my mother & sister who came to visit the h & h in cologne. The h & h was very interesting - my sis managed to get me a card - I visited first of all the hand spinning guild where I got some spinning lessons on the drop spindle and the spinning wheel as well. I also visited the Ashford stand where I tried two of their wheels out and my son learned to card the wool (which he really liked a lot)

Now I'm working on Thien's housesocks, a shawl for my sister, a crocheted teddy bear for a friend ...
Very soon my friend Anja and I will start knitting our first Revontulis as our personal knitalong.

so that's all for now - have to finish the house socks and the swatch to the new mystery at Knitting-Delight.